Interplate coupling and transient slip along the subduction interface beneath Oaxaca, Mexico

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 175, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 269-290

  Correa Mora, F ^a   Demets, Chuck ^a   Cabral Cano, E ^b   Marquez Azua, B ^c   Diaz Molina, O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUADALAJARA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Seismic cycle; Subduction zone processes; Transient deformation

Indexed keywords

COUPLING; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; GPS; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; PLATE CONVERGENCE; SEISMIC ZONE; SLIP; SPATIAL VARIATION; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONIC SETTING; TRANSIENT FLOW; UPLIFT; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; OAXACA;

EID: 53549085127     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03910.x     Document Type: Article

References (49)

1. Altamimi, Z., Sillard, P. & Boucher, C., 2002. ITRF2000: A new release of the international terrestrial reference frame for earth science applications, J. geophys. Res., 107, 2214, doi:. 10.1029/ 2001JB000561
2. Aster, R., Borchers, B. & Thurber, C., 2005. Parameter Estimation and Inverse Problems, Elsevier Academic Press, Burlington, MA, USA.
3. Bassin, C., Laske, G. & Masters, G., 2000. The current limits of resolution for surface wave tomography in North America, EOS, Trans. Am. geophys. Un., 81, F897.
4. Brudzinski, M., Cabral-Cano, E., Correa-Mora, F., DeMets, C. & Márquez-Azúa, B., 2007. Slow slip transients along the Oaxaca subduction segment from 1993 to 2007, Geophys. J. Int., 171(2), doi. 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03542.x
5. Burgmann, R., Kogan, M.K., Steblov, G.M., Hilley, G., Levin, V.E. & Apel, T., 2005. Interseismic coupling and asperity distribution along the Kamchatka subduction zone, J. geophys. Res., 110, doi:. 10.1029/ 2005JB003648
6. Calais, E., Han, J.Y., DeMets, C. & Nocquet, J.M., 2006. Deformation of the North American plate interior from a decade of continuous GPS measurements, J. geophys. Res., 111(B06402), doi:. 10.1029/2005JB004253
7. Currie, C.A., Hyndman, R.D., Wang, K. & Kostoglodov, V., 2002. Thermal models of the Mexico subduction zone: Implications for the megathrust seismogenic zone, J. geophys. Res., 107(B12), doi: 10.1029/ 2001JB000886
8. DeMets, C., 2001. A new estimate for present-day Cocos-Caribbean plate motion: Implications for slip along the Central American volcanic arc, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 4043-4046.
9. Douglas, A., Beavan, J., Wallace, L. & Townend, J., 2005. Slow slip on the northern Hikurangi subduction interface, New Zealand, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32(L16305), doi: 10.1029/2005GL023607
10. Dragert, H., Wang, K. & James, T.S., 2001. A silent slip event on the deeper Cascadia subduction interface, Science, 292, 1525-1528.
11. Franco, S., Kostoglodov, V., Larson, K., Manea, V., Manea, M. & Santiago, J., 2005. Propagation of the 2001-2002 silent earthquake and interplate coupling in the Oaxaca subduction zone, Mexico, Earth Planets Space, 57, 973-985.
12. Hansen, P., 1992. Analysis of discrete ill-posed problems by means of the L-curve, SIAM Rev., 34(4), 561-580.
13. Heflin, M. et al., 1992. Global geodesy using GPS without fiducial sites, Geophys. Res. Lett., 19, 131-134.
14. Iglesias, A., Singh, S., Lowry, A., Santoyo, M., Kostoglodov, V., Larson, K. & Franco-Sánchez, S., 2004. The silent earthquake of 2002 in the Guerrero seismic gap, Mexico (Mw = 7.6): Inversion of slip on the plate interface and some implications, Geofísica Internacional, 43, 309-317.
15. Kostoglodov, V., Singh, S., Santiago, J., Franco, S., Larson, K., Lowry, A. & Bilham, R., 2003. A large silent earthquake in the Guerrero seismic gap, Mexico, Geophys. Res. Lett., 30, 1807-1810.
16. Larson, K., Kostoglodov, V., Miyazaki, S. & Santiago, J., 2007. The 2006 aseismic slow slip event in Guerrero, Mexico: New results from GPS, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34(L13309), doi: 10.1029/2007GL029912
17. Lawson, C. & Hanson, R., 1974. Solving Least Squares Problems, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
18. Lay, T. & Schwartz, S., 2004. Comment on 'coupling semantics and science' in earthquake research, EOS, Trans. Am. geophys. Un., 85, 339-340.
19. Lowry, A., 2006. Resonant slow fault slip in subduction zones forced by climatic load stress., Nature, 442, doi: 10.1029/2007GL029912
20. Lowry, A., Larson, K., Kostoglodov, V. & Bilham, R., 2001. Transient slip on the subduction interface in Guerrero, southern Mexico, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 3753-3756.
21. Mao, A., Harrison, C. & Dixon, T., 1999. Noise in GPS coordinate time series, J. geophys. Res., 104, 2797-2816.
22. Marone, C., 1998. Laboratory-derived friction laws and their application to seismic faulting, Ann. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci., 26, 643-696.
23. Marquez-Azua, B. & DeMets, C., 2003. Crustal velocity field of Mexico from continuous GPS measurements, 1993 to June, 2001: implications for the neotectonics of Mexico, J. geophys. Res., 108(B9), doi: 10.1029/2002JB002241
24. Masterlark, T., 2003. Finite element model predictions of static deformation from dislocation sources in a subduction zone: Sensitivies to homogeneous, isotropic, Poisson-solid, and half-space assumptions, J. geophys. Res., 108, doi: 10.1029/2002JB002296
25. Masterlark, T., DeMets, C., Wang, H., Sanchez, O. & Stock, J., 2001. Homogeneous vs heterogeneous subduction zone models: Coseismic and postseismic deformation, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 4047-4050.
26. Mazzotti, S., Le Pichon, X., Henry, P. & Miyazaki, S., 2000. Full interseismic locking of the Nankai and Japan-west Kurile subduction zones: An analysis of uniform elastic strain accumulation in Japan constrained by permanent GPS, J. geophys. Res., 105, 13159-13178.
27. McCaffrey, R., 1997. Statistical significance of the seismic coupling coefficient, Bull. seism. Soc. Am., 87, 1069-1073.
28. Norabuena, E. et al., 2004. Geodetic and seismic constraints on some seismogenic zone processes in Costa Rica, J. geophys. Res., 109(B11403), doi: 10.1029/2003BJ002931
29. Obara, K., Hirose, H., Yamamizu, F. & Kasahara, K., 2004. Episodic slow slip events accompanied by non-volcanic tremors in southwest Japan subduction zone, Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L23602, doi: 10.1029/ 2004GL020848
30. Ohta, Y., Freymueller, J., Hreinsdóttir, S. & Suito, H., 2006. A large slow slip event and the depth of the seismogenic zone in the south central Alaska subduction zone, Earth planet. Sci. Lett., 247(1-2), doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.05.013
31. Ozawa, S., Murakami, M., Kaidzu, M., Tada, T., Sagiya, T., Hatanaka, Y., Yarai, H. & Nishimura, T., 2002. Detection and monitoring of ongoing aseismic slip in the Tokai region, central Japan, Science, 298, 1009-1012.
32. Pacheco, J., Sykes, L. & Scholz, C., 1993. Nature of seismic coupling along simple plate boundaries of the subduction type, J. geophys. Res., 98, 14133-14159.
33. Pardo, M. & Suárez, G., 1995. Shape of the subducted Rivera and Cocos plates in southern Mexico: Seismic and tectonic implications, J. geophys. Res., 100, 12357-12374.
34. Reid, H., 1910. The mechanics of the earthquake, The California earthquake of April 18, 1906, Report of the State Earthquake Investigation Commission, 2.
35. Scholz, C., 1998. Earthquakes and friction laws, Nature, 391, 37-42.
36. Singh, S., Havskov, J., McNally, K., Ponce, L., Hearn, T. & Vassiliou, M., 1980. The Oaxaca, Mexico, Earthquake of 29 November 1978: a preliminary report on aftershocks, Science, 207, 1211-1213.
37. Smith, W. & Sandwell, D., 1997. Global sea floor topography from satellite altimetry and ship depth soundings, Science, 277, 1956-1962.
38. Stark, P. & Parker, R., 1995. Bounded-variable least-squares: An algorithm and applications, Comput. Stat., 10, 129-141.
39. Stewart, G., Chael, E. & McNally, K., 1981. The November 29, 1978 Oaxaca, Mexico, earthquake: A large simple event, J. geophys. Res., 86, 5053-5060.
40. Suarez, G., Monfret, T., Wittlinger, G. & David, C., 1990. Geometry of subduction and depth of the seismogenic zone in the Guerrero gap, Mexico, Nature, 345, 336-338.
41. Tajima, F. & McNally, K., 1983. Seismic rupture patterns in Oaxaca, Mexico, J. geophys. Res., 88, 4263-4276.
42. Thatcher, W. & Rundle, J., 1984. A viscoelastic coupling model for the cyclic deformation due to periodically repeated earthquakes at subduction zones, J. geophys. Res., 89, 7631-7640.
43. Turcotte, D. & Schubert, G., 1982. Geodynamics: Applications of Continuum Physics to Geological Problems, John Wiley, New York.
44. Wang, H., 2000. Theory of Linear Poroelasticity with Applications to Geomechanics and Hydrogeology, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, USA.
45. Wang, K. & Dixon, T., 2004. 'Coupling' semantics and science in earthquake research, EOS, Trans. Am. geophys. Un., 85(18), 180-180.
46. Yoshioka, S., Mikumo, T., Kostoglodov, V., Larson, K., Lowry, A. & Singh, S., 2004. Interplate coupling and a recent aseismic slow slip event in the Guerrero seismic gap of the Mexican subduction zone, as deduced from GPS data inversion using a Bayesian information criterion, Phys. Earth planet. Inter., 146, 513-530.
47. Zhao, S., Muller, R., Takahashi, Y. & Kaneda, Y., 2004. 3-D finite-element modelling of deformation and stress associated with faulting: Effect of inhomogeneous crustal structures, Geophys. J. Int., 157, 629-644.
48. Zumberge, J., Heflin, M., Jefferson, D., Watkins, M. & Webb, F., 1997. Precise point positioning for the efficient and robust analysis of GPS data from large networks, J. geophys. Res., 102, 5005-5017.
49. Zuniga, F. & Wyss, M., 2001. Most-and least-likely locations of large to great earthquakes along the Pacific coast of Mexico estimated from local recurrence times based on b-values, Bull. seism. Soc. Am., 91, 1717-1728.